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My practice can be loosely divided into three categories: Sculpture/Installation, the Collection and Text Art, though it also incorporates other disciplines such as Collage, Photography and Performance. I would describe my work as conceptual but with a comedic sensibility. Language and wordplay are also key elements, as well as humour also (comic...
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Concepts My work is 'about' rather than 'of' landscape. I prefer to get involved with a landscape and aim to say something about its past and present. I am especially interested in the impact that mankind has had on the land through industrial, agricultural, ritual and military use and increasingly with ecological issues. I was commissioned...
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Ginny Reed is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production including film, performance, drawing and light and it's effects. The works coincide in contrasting the materiality of actual, depicted and used objects with the materiality of the forms of their representation. Her work explores the accumulation and dispersal of materials and...
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My practice comprises text, film, sound and performance. It usually draws on what is already available. A lot of my work is driven by an interest in taxonomies and classification systems, and in particular an interest in the illuminations and absurdities that arise as a result of applying classification systems to existing bodies of...
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Bridget Kennedy (b. 1970 Voorburg, Netherlands) is a compulsive organiser. She uses systemisation as a survival tactic, as a means of creating a little quietness amidst the clamor of modern life. She lives on the outskirts of a small village in the North of England. Whilst seeking out wildness and wilderness through interaction with nature she...
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A common theme, which seems to run through my work, is the elevation of the status of the discarded, rejected and ignored. My designs recognise neglected needs and challenge the standard.I work mainly in ceramics and photography.'Making Sense', a series of over 40 ceramic tiles, is one example of elevating the status of the discarded. In...
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My work draws on the experience of the audience, exploring how language, codes and the written word is perceived, broken down and deciphered by the viewer. I am interested in the notion of memories, the cultural psychologies of looking and the differences between socially conditioned learning patterns and biological ones.Within my practice I...
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I am curious about how we value, occupy and dream about space, both physical and imaginary. A playful examination of urban, rural and domestic space has always been intrinsic to my practice. The situations i initiate and objects i make seek to heighten the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, the self and 'elsewhere' or 'other'. ...
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Cath Campbell's practice is dominated by an ongoing enquiry into the status, meaning and fabric of architecture. Taking Modernism as a point of departure Campbell re-appropriates architectural imagery from memory or imagination to create works that reinvent our associations with the built environment. Drawing, sculpture, photographic works, film...
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Alison Unsworth is a visual artist who creates prints, sculptures, public works and interventions. The main focus of her practice is an exploration of the built environment, in particular, the nature of public space. Her work is informed by numerous walking trips to photograph anything and everything found in streets and urban spaces, from bins,...
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I am currently employing a variety of approaches to debate notions of people, place and time. My personal experiences of living in two countries have prompted me to reflect upon the extent to which individuals are a product of their genetic make-up or of their environment i.e., nature or nurture. I have personalised this by producing a series of...
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Artist Ira Lightman was commissioned by Sedgefield Borough Council to produce a new public artwork comprising of ten visual poems creating letter shaped sculptures spelling the word S-P-E-N-N-Y-M-O-O-R on the walls around the town centre. Within each letter are poems that were selected from an open call for entries from the local community and...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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